8 posts and columns on inventories

iPads Available at “Most Best Buy Stores” This Saturday

in News on March 29, 2010 at 6:25 am PT

When Apple’s iPad goes on sale this Saturday, it will be available at all of the company’s 221 U.S. Apple retail outlets and most Best Buy stores. In other news, some of the earliest early iPad adopters have begun receiving shipping notifications for the devices.

Global Chip Sales Down 9 Percent in 2009–Not 11 Percent

in News on February 1, 2010 at 7:30 am PT

Global chip sales fell nine percent in 2009, beaten down by the econalypse, which hamstrung demand for all manner of consumer electronics. A nasty drop, but not nearly as bad as it could have been or, indeed, what was expected. Because at $226.3 billion, total chip sales for the year were far better than the $219.7 billion the Semiconductor Industry Association had been expecting.

The Chips Are Up, Redux

in News on November 30, 2009 at 4:50 am PT

A bit of good news after the chip industry’s seemingly endless procession of bad. Worldwide sales of semiconductors in October rose 5.1 percent over September, racking up their eighth month of consecutive gains, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.
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Q2 Chip Sales Not Too Horribly Awful

in News on August 3, 2009 at 8:40 am PT

Looks like the semiconductor industry has finally found a bottom from which to scramble upward. In the second quarter, chip sales registered their fourth consecutive monthly increase, the Semiconductor Industry Association said today, suggesting that we may be seeing the beginning of a gradual recovery in the industry. Though worldwide chip sales fell 20 percent year-over-year in the second quarter, they rose 17 percent from the first quarter.

World-Wide PC Shipments to Improve, No Thanks to Windows 7

in News on June 25, 2009 at 3:47 pm PT

World-wide PC shipments will be lousy in 2009, but not quite as lousy as previously thought. Gartner says they’ll fall six percent for the year, which is an improvement over the 6.6 percent drop it forecast last month and the 9.2 percent decline it projected back in March.
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World-Wide PC Shipments to Improve, No Thanks to Windows 7

in News on June 25, 2009 at 3:47 pm PT

World-wide PC shipments will be lousy in 2009, but not quite as lousy as previously thought. Gartner says they’ll fall six percent for the year, which is an improvement over the 6.6 percent drop it forecast last month and the 9.2 percent decline it projected back in March.
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AMD Gaining on Intel, and No, I’m Not Joking

in News on May 12, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

Well, look at that. Floundering though it is, AMD has managed some gains in the semiconductor market. According to IDC, the company’s share of the chip market hit 22.3 percent during the first quarter of 2009, an increase of 4.6 percent over the fourth quarter of 2008. Meanwhile, Intel’s share fell to 77.3 percent, a decline of 4.7 percent.
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PC Sales Crashing Like an Unpatched Windows Machine

in News on March 2, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

Billionaire Warren Buffett says the economy will be in a shambles throughout “2009–and, for that matter, probably well beyond.” The same can apparently be said for the PC market. Research outfit Gartner on Monday warned that PC sales will suffer the “sharpest unit decline in history” this year.
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